Star on the Door
A Comedy by Jack Sharkey and Leo W. Sears
September 2004
It is 1920. Violet Sheridan, a young sculptress, is summoned to meet Sherlock Holmes, who is now retired and keeping bees in Sussex. Violet hopes that the great man has invited her in order to commission a bust of himself, but instead he reveals to her that they have a close family connection. Leaving out a crucial piece of the puzzle of her mysterious origins, Holmes abruptly asks Violet to collaborate with him on an unsettling blackmail case that has disturbed his retirement. But rather than join the aging sleuth, Violet embarks on her own investigation in search of her true identity. Holmes, famous for his ability to reveal truths, employs all his waning strength to conceal the facts of Violet's heritage. Her keen, intuitive sleuthing brings her in contact with several elusive and fascinating women—all of whom seem to have been intimately involved with the great detective. Consulting a medium, at a seance Violet learns some distressing information concerning her birthright, while at the same time, Holmes' blackmail, and now murder, case becomes intertwined with Violet's search for her elusive lineage. The conclusion of the mysteries finds Holmes the super-hero forced to confront Holmes the flawed, mortal man, and his dynamic young apprentice is thrust into a situation in which she discovers her true self as she rescues her lost parents from danger.
Two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the Moose Lodge circuit in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. When they hear that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long lost English nephews, they resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. The trouble is, when they get to York, they find out that the relatives aren't nephews, but nieces! Romantic entanglements abound, especially when Leo falls head-over-petticoat in love with the old lady's vivacious niece, Meg, who's engaged to the local minister. Meg knows that there's a wide world out there, but it's not until she meets "Maxine and Stephanie" that she finally gets a taste of it.
The action is set in Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town's rich curmudgeon, Ouiser, ("I'm not crazy, I've just been in a bad mood for forty years"); an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, who has a raging sweet tooth; and the local social leader, M'Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby (the prettiest girl in town), is about to marry a "good ole boy." Filled with hilarious repartee and humorously revealing verbal collisions. The ladies learn to draw on their underlying strength—and love—which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.
Two
ladies are discovered in the back suite of a once fashionable
hotel in New York that is being demolished. They have been
there since 1932 when Hoover lost and they have vowed to
remain secluded until a Republican is elected. The press
and the National Chairmen of the Republican and Democratic
parties descend upon the ladies, members of one of the country's
oldest and richest families. The ladies defy both politicians
and face eviction and disgrace. They retain their independence
when wealth pours down upon them and they move in triumph
to the Waldorf Astoria.
Life
in a soap opera meets life in a New York penthouse, resulting
in a lampoon with wild madness. Crusty Horatio Tucker, sponsor
of TV's most popular soap, receives a mysterious note saying
the clue to his killer will be found in the next episode.
He invites the cast to his place and forces them to act
out the episode. Soon there's murder and chaos. A nasty
network executive is dead and so is Dr. Rittenhouse. Then,
Tucker is dispatched via chicken soup from the soap's saintly
mother character. With characters slipping in and out of
their roles and plastic surgeons, welfare cheaters, theatrical
hams and assorted zanies running loose the action is alive
with marvelous surprises, gags and delightful dialogue.
Inspired
by true events and written by Mark Goffman, Me Too revolves around hopeless romantic Andrew, who meets the
girl of his dreams. However, the path to love and happiness
proves to be more than he bargained for. By falling into
the everyday human flaw of lying, Andrew is forced to deal
with his past and learn the meaning of true love.
American businessman Wendell Armbruster, Jr. is summoned to Italy after a car accident claims the lives of his father and his father's secret mistress! And when the mistress' daughter, Pamela Piggott, also arrives-and the bodies of both of their parents disappear-the two instant foes are brought together in a baffling mystery and affair of the heart!
Unger
and Madison are at it again! Florence Ungar and Olive Madison,
that is, in Neil Simon's hilarious contemporary comic classic:
the female version of The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker
party that begins the original version, Ms. Madison has
invited the girls over for an evening of Trivial Pursuits.
The Pigeon sisters have been replaced by the hilarious Constanzuela
brothers.
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Here
is a wild farce with twists of fate, sight gags, mistaken
identities and hilarious comic lines. Jon Trachtman and
Leslie Arthur are out of work musicians who room together
in New York City. To save money, Jon has been filing tax
returns listing the pair as a married. The day of reckoning
comes when the Internal Revenue Service informs the "couple"
they're going to be investigated by a Mr. Spinner. Leslie
masquerades as a housewife, aided by Jon's fiancee, Kate.
Complicating matters further Leslie and Kate are having
an affair behind Jon's back, Jon's mother drops in unexpectedly
to meet her son's fiancee, and Leslie's girlfriend shows
up demanding to know why Leslie has changed and won't see
her anymore.
The
smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages. The
ingenious plot tells how novelist Charles Condomine invites
into his placid country home an eccentric, breezy lady medium
in order to learn the language of the occult. Little does
Charles or his lovely second wife, Ruth, dream that the
seance staged by the medium will summon back Charles' first
wife, now "passed over" for seven years. But the
lady from beyond, still handsome, still mischievous, appears
and torments Charles by reminding him of their days and
nights together. Only Charles can see or hear her. A floating
vase, handed to her out of thin air, finally convinces Ruth
that Charles is not losing his mind that his first wife
is indeed in the room. The first wife has a ghostly plot
in mind: if she can get Charles into an automobile accident
and make a ghost of him, life in the spirit world will have
more appeal for her. Mistakes occur, however, and it is
Ruth who takes the fatal automobile ride and passes on only
to return with the first wife to plague the utterly bewildered
astral bigamist! How Charles manages to extricate himself
from these two very blithe spirits makes an hilarious conclusion
to this very unusual farce. Hilariously funny, brilliant,
clever and about as cockeyed as a play can be.
Mr.
Banks learns that one of the young men he has seen occasionally
about the house is about to become his son-in-law. Daughter
Kay announces the engagement out of nowhere. Mrs. Banks
and her sons are happy, but Mr. Banks is in a dither. The
groom-to-be, Buckley Dunstan, appears on the scene and Mr.
Banks realizes that the engagement is serious. Buckley and
Kay don't want a "big" wedding—just a simple
affair with a few friends! We soon learn, however, that
the "few" friends idea is out. Then trouble really
begins. The guest list grows larger each day, a caterer
is called in, florists, furniture movers and dressmakers
take over, and the Banks household is soon caught in turmoil—not
to mention growing debt. When Kay, in a fit of temper, calls
off the wedding, everyone's patience snaps. But all is set
right, and the wedding (despite more last-minute crises)
comes off beautifully. In the end, the father of the bride
is a happy, proud man, glad that the wedding is over, but
knowing too that it was worth all the money and aggravation
to start his daughter off so handsomely on the road to married
life.
Since concert
pianist Duncan Latimer and wife, Ellen, famous soap opera
star, lead impeccable lives their P.R. lady has no qualms
over having a reporter from a scandal magazine interview
them. But just before he arrives, so does Duncan's old Navy
buddy and Ellen's former lover from her literally messy
past and so does an extra wife Duncan forgot to tell anyone
about. It's crazy and comical confusion all the way.
SAl
Lewis and Willie Clark played vaudeville as a team for forty
three years, but mutual dislike has keep them far apart
for the last eleven years. Now CBS wants them to appear
in History of Comedy and their reunion sparks delirious
comedy.
An
acting couple, not exactly the Lunts, are on tour in
Buffalo in 1953 with a repertory consisting of Cyrano
de Bergerac, revised one nostril version, and Noel Coward's
Private Lives. This backstage farce stars a megalomaniac
and often drunk George Hay. His wife, Charlotte, is
just as overdramatic and fate has given these thespians
one more shot at starring roles in The Scarlet Pimpernel
epic and director Frank Capra himself is en route to
Buffalo to catch their matinee performance. Will Charlotte
Hay appear or run off with their agent? Will George
Hay be sober enough to emote? Will Capra see Cyrano,
Private Lives or a disturbing mixture of the two? Hilarious
misunderstandings pile on madcap misadventures, all
of which are magnified by Charlotte's deaf mother who
manages the theatre.
In
this heart-warming comedy,Vada Love Powell, society leader
of a small southern town, has every intention of scaring
off yet another prospective bride for her beloved son, Apple,
the “exact center” of her universe. The trick
turns on the spider when she learns that the little fly
she has lured into her parlor is really the identical twin
of her son’s new love. While Vada works to dissuade
Mary LOU, Apple is off marrying Mary ANN!
Through
her constant manipulations, Vada runs the risk of losing
Apple and his new family altogether. Can she change her
ways before it is too late? Audiences delight as Vada
struggles to control an ever-changing universe.
This
masterfully plotted show has so many twists and turns
that we're going to tell you only the bare minimum of
the story so you can enjoy the surprises when you see
the show. On the surface, it's a "love triangle"
tale: State's witness Evan Jorris is under a government
witness protection program after testifying against
the mob. Also in the protection program is his wife,
Francine. She along with her their lawyer, her lover,
Larry Craig contrives to do away with her husband, They
are confident that Evan's protector, federal agent Bert
Marshak, will assume, logically, that the mob did the
deed, and never suspect the two of them. This deceptively
simple setup, however, is not at all what it seems.
By the end of the first act, you may smugly think you
can second guess the play's outcome but in the second
and final act, you'll ruefully discover that you not
only don't know what's what you don't even know who's
who!
In
a festive mood, the ladies mount another assault on
the classics with their stage version of A Christmas
Carol. They enthusiastically portray a dizzy array
of characters from the Dickensian favorite (and a
few which aren't), engineer some novel audience participation
while bravely contending with an intrusive PA system
and a real Farndale first wrap their vocal cords and
feet around two original, show stopping songs.
How
far would you go for your child? For Genevra and
Joshua Bradley, the question is no longer hypothetical.
Their three-year-old son, Mac, is next on the waiting
list to get into the Bright Ideas Early Childhood
Development Academy—and everyone knows once
you’re in there, your life will unfold with
glorious ease. Josh and Gen have had to scramble
all their lives to get this far…and now they
are one fatal dinner party away from the ultimate
success as parents: The Right Pre-School. You may
never look at pre-school—or pesto—the
same way again.
A hilarious take off on the mystery plays of the Twenties complete with sliding panels, robed figures, wills being read at midnight, etc. The idioms, costumes, hairdos, and make up of the period add to the thrills and laughter. Four ingenious murders take place in an island mansion as a pair of elderly detectives set to work on their first case. The ever popular storm, the unexpected guests, the cryptic poem, and the missing fortune all add to the intricate and inventive mystery off which the laughs bounce.
The scene is French Guiana, a region where on Christmas day the temperature has graciously dropped to 104 degrees. Three convicts are employed as roofers by a family, whose roof is in desperate need of maintenance. On the way from France is an evil-minded cousin, to oust the father of the family from his business, and his cold-blooded nephew, who is jilting the father's daughter for an heiress. The three convicts—two of them murderers, the third a swindler—take the visitors on. All three have warm hearts and are passionate believers in true justice. Possessing every criminal art and penal grace, they set matters right and in doing so redeem themselves as real life angels to the grateful family.
Cinema legend Doreen Lewis, nervously about to make her Broadway debut opposite her ardent admirer Paul Burnside, intercepts a phone call for her dresser who is secretly wed to Doreen's son confirming that "Mrs. Lewis" is pregnant. Doreen is shocked to learn of "her" condition and decides the likely father is Paul he's never laid a hand on her, but she does tend to be forgetful!. Thinking Paul wants her ousted from the show via her contract's morals clause, she vengefully wears her mink on stage knowing Paul's fur allergy will reduce his dialogue to sneezes. The producer, a shrieking neurasthenic who fears his backer Nunzio will machine gun his knees if the show flops, is terrified, and the Bavarian playwright is reduced to sobbing uncontrollably as his beautiful play goes "to the dogs." A loony resolution caps this evening of non stop guffaws.
